If the First Solar Entrepreneur Hadnโ€™t Been Kidnapped, Would Fossil Fuels Have Dominated the 20th Century the Way Theyย Did?

George Cove stands next to his third solar array. Credit: Popular Electricity Magazine, April 1910 / Low Tech Magazine

Sugandha Srivastav is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer in Environmental Economics at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK. This article was originally published by The Conversation. CC BY-ND 4.0 DEED One argument put forward in defense of fossil fuels is that they were a historical necessity, because […]